One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
I have to be carful to not ask the AI leading questions. It’s very happy to go off and fix things that don’t need fixing when I suggest there is a bug, but in reality it’s user error or a configuration error on my part.
Yeah, as soon as the question could be interpreted as leading, it will directly follow your lead.
I had a weird issue with Github the other day, and after Google and the documentation failed me, I asked ChatGPT as a last-ditch effort.
My issue was that some file that really can’t have an empty newline at the end had an empty newline at the end, no matter what I did to the files before committing. I figured, that something was adding a newline and ChatGPT confirmed that almost enthusiastically. It was so sure that Github did that and told me that it’s a frequent complaint.
Turns out, no, it doesn’t. All that happened is that I first committed the file with an empty newline by accident, and Github raw files has a caching mechanism that’s set to quite a long time. So all I had to do was to just wait for a bit.
I believe you and agree.
I have to be carful to not ask the AI leading questions. It’s very happy to go off and fix things that don’t need fixing when I suggest there is a bug, but in reality it’s user error or a configuration error on my part.
It’s so eager to please.
Yeah, as soon as the question could be interpreted as leading, it will directly follow your lead.
I had a weird issue with Github the other day, and after Google and the documentation failed me, I asked ChatGPT as a last-ditch effort.
My issue was that some file that really can’t have an empty newline at the end had an empty newline at the end, no matter what I did to the files before committing. I figured, that something was adding a newline and ChatGPT confirmed that almost enthusiastically. It was so sure that Github did that and told me that it’s a frequent complaint.
Turns out, no, it doesn’t. All that happened is that I first committed the file with an empty newline by accident, and Github raw files has a caching mechanism that’s set to quite a long time. So all I had to do was to just wait for a bit.
Wasted about an hour of my time.